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July 21, 2015

CTSI has announced the annual winners of the 2015 Community Health Collaborative Grants, which support community-University pilot research projects that address important health issues identified by Minnesota communities.

Awards are designed to stimulate high-impact research, while building and sustaining long-term partnerships between University of Minnesota researchers and community representatives.

Immigrant Microbiome Project: Characterization of the Obesogenic Gut Microbiome among Immigrants Dan Knights, College of Science and EngineeringKathleen Culhane-Pera, West Side Community Health Services

Minnesota’s Transgender Older Adults: Locating a Hidden Population and Identifying Unmet Service Needs Abel Knochel, Department of Social Work, University of Minnesota DuluthDylan...

Daniel Weisdorf, MD, will work closely with the CTSI executive leadership team to oversee the institute's operations. He assumes responsibilities from Jeffrey Miller, MD, who recently stepped down to accept the National Cancer Institute Outstanding Investigator Award and its related work.

Dr. Weisdorf's clinical and research interests are in application of blood marrow transplant therapies for hematologic malignancies as well as extensive study of the clinical complications of transplantation including opportunistic infections and graft versus host disease (GVHD).

Dr. Weisdorf is Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, and Director of the Adult Blood and Marrow Transplant Program. He also provides leadership for clinical trial activity inthe Department of Medicine as Associate Chair for Clinical Research and co-leads the Transplant Biology and Therapy Program of the Masonic Cancer Center.

Previously, he served as the Scientific Director of the National Marrow Donor Program and currently is Senior Research Advisor for the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, and Scientific...

July 16, 2015

Undergraduate student Jamie Morrissette had an experience that many researchers can only dream of: presenting her research to legislators on Capitol Hill.

“Sharing my research with our nation’s policy-makers was a thrilling opportunity, and one that I couldn’t imagine having before I got involved with the Undergraduate Research Program.”

Morrissette represented the state of Minnesota at the annual Posters on the Hill event, where she shared the results of a study she collaborated on that showed domestic violence’s impact on cardiovascular health.

She presented to attendees ranging from members of the U.S. Congress to NIH staff, and also held individual meetings about her research with Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar and staff from Minnesota Representative Tom Emmer’s office.

CTSI is awarding combined total of $31,000 to enable supported research teams to apply evidence-based health strategies to the real world, with the ultimate goal of improving human health. Funding became effective July 1, 2015.

June 29, 2015

The Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) announced seven new scholars will join its faculty career development programs. The programs are designed to support junior investigators as they build independent research careers.

Gretchen Sieger came to CTSI from the University’s Transplant Information Services, where she worked assisting researchers with data retrieval and analysis for the last 14 years. She has significant experience in working with data from Fairview’s electronic health records.

Adding these two professionals significantly increases ICS's capacity and skill set to assist researchers in finding and understanding the data available in the clinical data repository and other available resources to help address their research questions.

For the last seven years, Dr. Aliferis served as the founding director of the Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformatics at NYU Langone Medical Center (NYULMC). At NYU, he also led the CTSI Informatics program and the Informatics Shared Resource of the NYU Cancer Institute.

"It's a truly transformative time for informatics."

His work over the years spanned cancer genomics, proteomics, microbiomics and contributed to discoveries in treatment and prevention of diverse diseases like pneumonia, lung cancer, melanoma, psoriasis, osteoarthritis, stroke, rheumatoid arthritis, and more.

Over the last 25 years, Dr. Aliferis has invented many algorithmic methods for causal and predictive discoveries - for determining...

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